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...Tennessee's 50 colleges is the most informally-named in the U. S. and, according to its founder, the only one in the world where Greek and Hebrew are required subjects for students majoring in Religion - Bob Jones College in Cleveland. Alabama-born Bob Jones, a tall, husky Methodist who held his first service at 13 and was licensed to preach at 15, founded his institution a decade ago in northern Florida, planning it as a college for preserving the Bible and "the oldtime decencies" and still appealing to young people. He began with 132 students, confounded pedagogs...
People were struck by the sparkling costumes, an ingenious unfolding backdrop, a big spidery web which the Prince had to rip aside to reach the Princess. The dancers were more energetic than exact. Russian Alexis Dolinoff, as Prince Désiré, was a worse dancer than U. S.-born Thomas Cannon (Prince-from-the-North). As the heroine, Miss Littlefield danced cleanly and classically...
Philadelphia has long been thankful to the Littlefields who make it eminent in ballet. Catherine Littlefield was born there 32 years ago. She began to study in her mother's dancing studio when she was 3. At 16, she got a job in Ziegfeld's Sally, later studied in Paris, went back to Philadelphia to head the ballet of the Philadelphia Grand Opera...
When Carlos Chavez began to write music he was barely out of his teens. A seventh child, he was born near Mexico City in 1899, first studied piano with his brother Manuel, later with teachers like Asuncion Parra and Pedro Ogazón. At 22, Chavez met José Vasconcelos, the radical Secretary of Education who hired Rivera to paint the famous murals in his Secretariat. Vasconcelos gave Chavez the commission for his first ballet, The New Fire...
Daughter of an Irish father and Hungarian mother, Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wis. 49 years ago. At the Manhattan Art Students' League in 1905 she was dark, handsome, known to every one as Patsy. But soon she gagged at the sort of painting she was being taught, went off to earn her living in various advertis ing agencies, later became a public school art supervisor in Amarillo...